We really enjoy eggs benedict, so I was pleased when I found a nice looking recipe for hollandaise sauce here. I was a little nervous about trying to make the sauce given my rudimentary culinary skills. My nervousness turned out to be well founded – my sauce was not a full scale disaster but it was certainly getting there. [Read more…]

Jok’n’Al, which is a Kiwi brand, make some great low carb products including jams. The jams are sweetened with Splenda, and come in a few different flavours. Our favourites are raspberry and apricot, both of which are sweet but tangy at the same time.

It was an exciting day when we discovered the sugar-free syrups made by Da Vinci and Torani! The syrups are sweetened with Splenda, and we use them frequently in desserts and in our coffees. We’ve tried a number of different flavours (although we’ve barely scratched the surface of what is available) and like most of them, but our favourites are probably Torani salted caramel and Torani chocolate. [Read more…]

Being Kiwis, we love our tomato sauce and this is one of the things that we really missed when we first started following a keto diet. We eventually discovered that Jok’n’Al (who make other low carb products including jams) make a tomato ketchup that is low in carbs and really tasty. [Read more…]